HISTORY MA Programme
Welcome to the History MA programme!
I look forward to meeting you during Induction week: the introductory History subject talk about the
MA and MRes programme in History takes place on Thursday 24 September, followed by a buffet
lunch where you will hopefully meet students from Year 2 (part time students) and members of the
History subject staff. Details of these, and other induction events, are published on this site.
The MA and ResM students share one of the core modules, the module that runs in semester 1, Key
Debates and Research Methods in History (MAHI700).
Otherwise, as MA students, you have a choice from the following options for semester 1 and
semester 2.
You choose one for each semester.
Semester 1
MAHI703 Britain in the Sixties
Dr Daniel Grey
E: daniel.grey@plymouth.ac.uk
MAHI707 Japanese History: from Tokugawa to Hirohito
Dr Sandra Barkhof
E: s.barkhof@plymouth.ac.uk
MAHI710 The Irish Revolution 1912-37
Dr Claire Fitzpatrick
E: claire.fitzpatrick@plymouth.ac.uk
MAHI712 The Empire of Law. Ruling the British Empire 1760 – 1960
Dr Daniel Grey
E: daniel.grey@plymouth.ac.uk
MAHI714 Culture and Society. Britain c.1760 – 1914
Dr James Gregory
E: james.r.gregory@plymouth.ac.uk
MAHI715 Family, Sex and Society in Britain 1450 – 1700
Professor James Daybell
E: james.daybell@plymouth.ac.uk
MAHI718 Independent Research Project in History
Dr James Gregory
E: james.r.gregory@plymouth.ac.uk
Semester 2
MAHI704 Piracy and Privateering
Dr Elaine Murphy
E: Elaine.murphy@plymouth.ac.uk
MAHI706 The Civil Rights Movement
Dr Simon Topping
E: simon.topping@plymouth.ac.uk
MAHI708 Key Debates in Postwar Japan
Dr Jonathan Mackintosh
E: jonathan.mackintosh@plymouth.ac.uk
MAHI709 The French Wars of Religion 1558 – 98
Dr Jameson Tucker
E: jameson.tucker@plymouth.ac.uk
MAHI711 The Longest War: Britain, Ireland and the Troubles, 1949 – 1998
Dr Claire Fitzpatrick,
E: claire.fitzpatrick@plymouth.ac.uk
MAHI713 Themes in 19th and 20th Century German History
Dr Sandra Barkhof
E: s.barkhof@plymouth.ac.uk
MAHI716 America and the United Nations 1945 to present
Dr Harry Bennett
E: H.Bennett-1@plymouth.ac.uk
MAHI 718 Independent Research Project in History
Dr James Gregory
E: james.r.gregory@plymouth.ac.uk
More information about these modules can be obtained by contacting the module leaders (names
and e.mail addresses listed above), who will be able to inform you of the timetable and location for
lectures / seminars, and send you module handbooks.
MAHI718 has been designed for those University of Plymouth students who have previously studied
any given module at level 6, and who are therefore not permitted to study these at level 7, and who
can then develop their own independent research project under expert supervision, subject to the
availability of staff.
In the second semester MA students also have a core module, Public History (MAHI701).
Reading and weblinks
In terms of preparation for the core module, MAHI700 Key Debates, and for your options, I have
assembled a short list of key texts or websites for you.
We do not expect you to do a mass of reading beforehand, but familiarising yourself with certain
academic websites, and getting hold of some books, is sensible. Since you may not yet have access
to university subscription e.journals, I have not listed anything from sources such as Jstor.
Sarah Barber, C. M. Peniston-Bird, History beyond the text: a student's guide to
approaching alternative sources (2009)
Stefan Berger, Heiko Feldner, Kevin Passmore, Writing history: theory & practice
(2010)
Mary Fulbrook, Historical theory (2002)
Jerome de Groot, Consuming history: historians and heritage in contemporary
popular culture (2009)
Paul Thompson, The Voice of the Past: Oral History (2000 edn)
Peter H. Stearns, Globalization in World History (2010)
Institute of Historical Research
A key portal for professional history, see the ‘Reviews in History’
http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/
And IHR podcasts:
http://www.history.ac.uk/podcasts
History Lab
This is a national network for postgraduate students in history and related disciplines, based at the
Institute of Historical Research.
http://www.history.ac.uk/historylab
For links to various discussion networks in the Humanities and Social Sciences, see:
https://www.h-net.org/
there are also excellent History-related blogs see for example:
‘the many-headed monster’, on the early modern period:
https://manyheadedmonster.wordpress.com/
For Plymouth-based material, you could browse through the open-access journal, Law Crime and
History
http://www.pbs.plymouth.ac.uk/solon/journalnew.htm
and
Plymouth University Nineteenth-Century Studies
https://plymouthuniversitynineteenthcenturystudies.wordpress.com/
Teaching: starting date
Teaching begins the week following Induction Week: the first session in the core module, Key
Debates, will be on Wednesdays for two hours from 10am and takes place every week in the Nancy
Astor Building 002 (if the venue changes I will let you know).
There is also session immediately following this for the MA History dissertation module (MAHI701) in
Nancy Astor Building 006 (this first week session will not be repeated during the semester).
The optional module timetables are available from the module leaders listed above: but note that
additional tutorial hours will be arranged for you too. Our staff offices (where tutorials often taken
place) are located in Portland Villas, but module teaching will be in buildings across the main campus.
You’ll have been sent details about other induction events including Library introduction and our
Media Hub inductions; and Students’ Union hosted events such as sports and societies fairs.
I look forward to seeing you for the History MA and ResM induction subject talk, in the Roland
Levinsky Building, Room 303 at 1.30, on 24 September.
James Gregory
Programme Leader for the MA in History, and Res M History
ResM History Programme
Welcome to the ResM History programme!
I look forward to meeting you during Induction week: the introductory History subject talk about the
MA and MRes programme in History takes place on Thursday 24 September, followed by a buffet
lunch where you will hopefully meet students from Year 2 (part time ResM and MA students) and
members of the History subject staff. Details of these, and other induction events, are published on
this site.
The MA and ResM students share one of the core modules, the module that runs in semester 1, Key
Debates and Research Methods in History (MAHI700).
In the second semester you will have a core module, Research in the Arts and Humanities (MAHI700).
The thesis module is MARE701 and you will have meetings arranged with potential supervisors in the
first semester.
In terms of preparation for the first core module, MAHI700 Key Debates, I have assembled a very
short list of key texts or websites for you. The detailed reading list for this module will be available
on the Digital Learning Environment with links to material on the shelves in the University’s Charles
Seale-Hayne Library, or to our e.books and e.journals.
Reading and weblinks
We do not expect you to do a mass of reading beforehand, but familiarising yourself with certain
academic websites, and getting hold of some books, is sensible. Since you may not yet have access
to university subscription e.journals, I have not listed anything from sources such as Jstor.
Sarah Barber, C. M. Peniston-Bird, History beyond the text: a student's guide to
approaching alternative sources (2009)
Stefan Berger, Heiko Feldner, Kevin Passmore, Writing history: theory & practice
(2010)
Mary Fulbrook, Historical theory (2002)
Jerome de Groot, Consuming history: historians and heritage in contemporary
popular culture (2009)
Paul Thompson, The Voice of the Past: Oral History (2000 edn)
Peter H. Stearns, Globalization in World History (2010)
Institute of Historical Research
A key portal for professional history, see the ‘Reviews in History’
http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/
And IHR podcasts:
http://www.history.ac.uk/podcasts
History Lab
This is a national network for postgraduate students in history and related disciplines, based at the
Institute of Historical Research.
http://www.history.ac.uk/historylab
For links to various discussion networks in the Humanities and Social Sciences, see:
https://www.h-net.org/
there are also excellent History-related blogs see for example:
‘the many-headed monster’, on the early modern period:
https://manyheadedmonster.wordpress.com/
For Plymouth-based material, you could browse through the open-access journal, Law Crime and
History
http://www.pbs.plymouth.ac.uk/solon/journalnew.htm
and
Plymouth University Nineteenth-Century Studies
https://plymouthuniversitynineteenthcenturystudies.wordpress.com/
Teaching: starting date
Teaching begins the week following Induction Week: the first session in the core module, Key
Debates, will be on Wednesdays for two hours from 10am and takes place every week in the Nancy
Astor Building 002 (if the venue changes I will let you know).
Our staff offices (where supervisory tutorials generally take place) are located in Portland Villas, but
module teaching in the core modules MAHI 700 and MARE 700 will be in buildings across the main
campus.
You’ll have been sent details about other induction events including Library introduction and our
Media Hub inductions; and Students’ Union hosted events such as sports and societies fairs.
I look forward to seeing you for the History MA and ResM induction subject talk, in the Roland
Levinsky Building, Room 303 at 1.30, on 24 September.
James Gregory
Programme Leader for the Res M History